Biography
Valentina Palazzi (S’15-M’19) received the M.Sc. degree (magna cum laude) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in industrial and information engineering from the University of Perugia, Italy, in 2014 and 2018, respectively.
In 2015, she was Visiting Ph.D. Student with the Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland. In 2016, she visited the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, sponsored by the COST action IC1301 Wireless Power Transmission for Sustainable Electronics. In 2016, she joined the Agile Technologies for High- Performance Electromagnetic Novel Applications Research Group, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, where she was involved in additive manufacturing technologies and flexible electronics. Currently, she is a researcher with the High Frequency Electronics Laboratory at the University of Perugia. She is currently a Researcher with the High Frequency Electronics Laboratory, University of Perugia. She holds one patent and has co-authored more than 30 papers (including both conference proceedings and journals) and one book chapter. Her current research interests include the design of wireless sensors, radar front ends, wireless power transfer technologies, additive manufacturing processes, and conformal electronics.
Dr. Palazzi is a member of IEEE MTT-S TC- 26 “RFID, Wireless Sensor and IoT” and a member of the TPC of the IEEE Topical Meeting on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet). She was a recipient of the First Place Award of the IEEE MTT-S Student Design Competition on Wireless Energy Harvesting held at the 2016 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium. She was a recipient of the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship in 2017 and the recipient of the 2017 MTT-S Prize Italy Chapter Central and Southern Italy. She was the recipient of the URSI Young Scientist Best Paper Award presented at the 2019 URSI Italian National Meeting.